Selected writings about Karl Ernst von Baer
Agassiz, Louis (1874).
Evolution and permanence of type. The Atlantic Monthly, 1874,
92-101.
Berg, Lev S. (1919). A. P. Slovcov i zakon Baera. Izvestiya Russkogo
Geograficheskogo Obschestva 1. Petrograd, 157-164.
Blacher, L. J. (1978). Raznoglasiya istorikov biologii v ocenke
teoreticheskih, v chastnosti evolyucionnyh, vozzrenij Karla Baera. Folia
Baeriana 3: 11-17.
Bunge, Gustav von (1900). Karl Ernst v. Baer's Stellung zur Frage nach der
Abstammung des Menschen. Biol. Zbl. 20(7): 224-225.
Churchill, F. B. (1991). Karl Ernst von Baer: The rise of classical
descriptive embryology. Developmental Biology 7: 5-12.
-- (1991). The rise of classical descriptive embryology. In: Gilbert, Scott
F. (ed.), A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology. New York: Plenum Press,
pp. 1-29.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1977). Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge (Mass.): The
Belknap Press, xiv+501.
Gutfeldt, Horand (1990). Die Entwicklung des Lebens auf der Erde:
die Rolle Karl Ernst von Baers in der Geschichte der Deutungen.
Offene Tore 34(5): 193-206.
Haacke, W. (1905). Karl Ernst von Baer. Leipzig, vii+175.
Hammen, L. van der (1983). Unfoldment and manifestation: The natural
philosophy of evolution. Acta Biotheoretica 32(3), 179-193.
Hertwig, O. (1909). K. E. v. Baers Leben und Wirken. Internationale
Wochenschrift für Wissenschaft 3.
Kongo, Linda (1993). Karl Ernst von Baer als Organisator der Wissenschaft.
Folia Baeriana 6: 82-85.
Kull, Kalevi (1998). Baerian
biology: evolution by means of organisms'
interpretation. In: Farré George L., Oksala Tarkko (eds.). Emergence,
Complexity, Hierarchy, Organization. Espoo, 197-200.
-- (1999). Outlines
for a post-Darwinian biology. Folia Baeriana 7: 129-142.
Lenoir, Timothy (1982). The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in
Nineteenth Century German Biology. Dordrecht: D.Reidel Publishing Company,
xii+314.
Lukina, T. A. (ed.) (1978). Iz epistolyarnogo naslediya K. M. Baera v arhivah
Evropy. Leningrad, 320.
O'Malley, C. D. (1956). On the genesis of the ovum of mammals and of man by
Karl Ernst von Baer. Isis 47: 117-153.
Oppenheimer, Jane M. (1963). K. E. von Baer's beginning insights into
casual-analytical relationships. Developmental Biology 7: 11-21.
-- (1967). Essays in the History of Embryology and Biology.
MIT Press, Cambridge.
-- (1990). Science and nationality: the case of Karl Ernst
von Baer (1792-1876).
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 134(2): 75-82.
Ospovat, Dov (1976). The influence of Karl Ernst von Baer's embryology, 1828-1859.
Journal History of Biology 9: 1-28.
-- (1995 [1981]). The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural
History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, xviii+301.
Querner, H. (1977). Karl Ernst von Baer als Anthropologe. In Schröter Peter
(ed.). Festschrift 75 Jahre Anthropologische Staatssammlung München.
München: Selbstverlag der Anthropologischen Staatssammlung,
301-309.
-- (1978). Karl Ernst von Baer und Thomas Henry Huxley.
Sudhoffs Archives 62(1): 131-47.
Poggi, Stefano & Bossi, Maurizio (eds.) 1994. Neurology and biology in the Romantic
age in Germany: Carus, Burdach, Gall, von Baer. In Romanticism in Science:
Science in Europe, 1790-1840. Dordrecht, 143-160.
Raikov, Boris E. (1968). Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876): Sein Leben und
sein Werk. Leipzig, 516.
Reinke, J. (1904). Karl Ernst von Baer als Forscher und Naturphilosoph.
Türmer 6: 34-46.
Remmel, Maie (1992). Baer's principles and developmental patterns. In: Kull,
Kalevi (ed.), Baer and
Modern Biology. Abstracts of the International Conference held in Tartu,
28.2.-2.3.1992. Tartu, p. 42-44.
Remmel, Maie; Volrat, A.; Iho, A.; Kress, M.; Timak, R.; Filippova, M. (1977). Opyt
naukometricheskogo analiza nauchnoj deyatel'nosti K. Baera. In: Voprosy
mediciny i biologii Pribaltiki. Tartu, 193-196.
Richards, Robert J. (1992). The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological
Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, xv+205.
Salthe, Stanley N. (1993). Should prediction or historical uniqueness be the
central focus of biology? Folia Baeriana 6: 247-260.
Sarton, George (1931). The discovery of the mammalian egg and the foundation
of modern embryology. Isis 16: 315-330.
Seidlitz, Georg (1876). Baer und die Darwin'sche Theorie. In: Beiträge zur
Descendenz-Theorie. Leipzig, 37-170.
Slaby, I. (1990). On the validity of von Baer's laws in evolutionary
morphology. Folia Morphologica 383: 293-300.
Stieda, L. (1878). Karl Ernst von Baer: Eine biographische Skizze.
Braunschweig, 301. [2te Auflage 1886.]
Stölzle, R. (1897). Karl Ernst von Baer und seine Weltanschauung.
Regensburg, xi+688.
Svetlov, P. G. (1953). Slovar' terminov K. M. Baera. In: K. Baer. Istoriya
Razvitiya Zhivotnyh, 2. Moskva, 516-531.
-- (1973). Pochemu K. Baer, pereehav v Rossiyu, pochti perestal zanimat'sya
embriologiej? In: Iz Istorii Biologii 4. Moskva, 187-198.
Tammiksaar, Erki & Stone, I. R. (1997). Karl Ernst von Baer and the Kara Sea
'Eiskeller'. Polar Record 33(186): 239-242.
Teichmüller, Gustav (1877). Darwinismus und Philosophie. Dorpat, vii+90.
Uexküll, Jakob von (1916). Karl Ernst von Baer. In: Das Baltenbuch. Dachau,
17-22.
Vernadsky, V. I. (1927). Pamyati akademika K. M. von Baera. In: Pervyj
Sbornik Pamyati Baera (Trudy Komissii po Istorii Znanij). Leningrad, 1-9.
A very extensive bibliography of publications about Baer has been published in Folia Baeriana:
vol. 4: 13-70 (747 entries), with addendums in later volumes -
vol. 5: 88-95 (entries 748-864),
vol. 6: 291-300 (entries 865-1007),
vol. 7: 143-149 (entries 1008-1111).
Look at the bibliography of Baer's own
writings.
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